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Perley Poore Sheehan
Perley Poore Sheehan (7 June 1875 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States – 30 September 1943 in Sierra Madre, California, United States) was an American film writer, novelist and film director. He was once married to Virginia Point (1902-unknown). Sheehan also wrote detective and adventure fiction for the pulp magazines. Sheehan wrote two fantasy novels, ''The Abyss of Wonders'' (1915), about a lost civilisation in the Gobi Desert, and ''The Red Road to Shamballah'' (1932-1933) about a hero with a Tibetan magic sword.Gene Christie, ''The People of the Pit, and other early horrors from the Munsey pulps''. Normal, IL : Black Dog Books, 2010. (p.202) Works Filmography as a film writer (note: most of manuscripts below are movies, which are based on his novels.) * '' The Dragon'' (1916) * ''The Bugler of Algiers'' (1916) * ''The Whispering Chorus'' (1918) * '' Brave and Bold'' (1918) * '' A Society Sensation'' (1918) * ''Upstairs'' (1919) * ''Three Sevens'' (1921) * '' For Thos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Photo Of Perley Sheehan
A photograph (also known as a photo, image, or picture) is an image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor, such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are now created using a smartphone/camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would see. The process and practice of creating such images is called photography. Etymology The word ''photograph'' was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light," and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing," together meaning "drawing with light." History The first permanent photograph, a contact-exposed copy of an engraving, was made in 1822 using the bitumen-based "heliography" process developed by Nicéphore Niépce. The first photographs of a real-world scene, made using a camera obscura, followed a few years later at Le Gras, Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
If You Believe It, It's So
''If You Believe It, It's So'' is a lost 1922 American silent drama film directed by Tom Forman and written by Perley Poore Sheehan and Waldemar Young. The film stars Thomas Meighan, Pauline Starke, Joseph J. Dowling, Theodore Roberts, Charles Stanton Ogle, and Laura Anson. The film was released on July 2, 1922, by Paramount Pictures. Cast *Thomas Meighan as Chick Harris *Pauline Starke as Alvah Morley *Joseph J. Dowling as Ezra Wood *Theodore Roberts as Sky Blue * Charles Stanton Ogle as Colonel Williams *Laura Anson as Tessie Wyngate *Charles K. French as Frank Tine *Tom Kennedy as Bartender *Ed Brady Ed John Brady (born June 17, 1962) is a former American football player. Brady was raised in Morris, Illinois, and attended Morris Community High School, where he led the Morris Redskins football team to a state championship. Brady played for ... as Constable References External links * * 1922 films 1920s English-language films Silent American dra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Dog Books (US)
Black Dog Books (BDB) is an independent press operation in Normal, Illinois, founded in 1997 by publisher Tom Roberts to keep an outlet for adventure fiction alive. It has expanded to publish fiction in the adventure, mystery, science fiction, and horror genres. History Black Dog Books began operations in 1997. The first 40 titles in the BDB line appeared in a chapbook format, with some giveaway titles and memorial books added to that figure. In 2006, a trade paperback line was launched. As of this writing, Black Dog Books has more than 60 titles in print. They expect to be releasing 8 to 10 new titles a year. Since the first title, BDB has gone out of its way to produce collections of material that is difficult to come by from rare magazines, and overlooked character collections. This extra effort to rescue works from obscurity has brought praise from readers and reviewers alike: "Publisher Tom Roberts is but one of an ever-growing number of those doing a great service, not onl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argosy 191611
Argosy or The Argosy may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media * ''Argosy'' (magazine), an American pulp magazine 1882–1978 and revived 1990–1994, 2004–2006 * ''Argosy'' (UK magazine), three British magazines * Argosy spaceship in ''Escape Velocity'' (video game) * ''The Argosy'' (newspaper), newspaper published in British Guiana 1880-1907 *Argosy (band), a British band active in 1969 which consisted of Roger Hodgson and Elton John Businesses and organisations * Argosy Book Store, New York City, U.S. * Argosy Films, a 1940s Australian production company *Argosy Foundation, formerly the Abele Family Charitable Trust *Argosy Gaming Company, a former American casino operator **Argosy Empress Casino, a riverboat casino *Argosy Pictures, John Ford's film company *Argosy University, educational institutions in North America *Argosy Components Ltd, Broadcast equipment manufacturer and distributor in the UK Transportation * Armstrong Whitworth Argosy, a 1920/30s British biplane a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hobart Davis
Robert Hobart Davis (1869–1942) was a dramatist, journalist, and photographer from the U.S. He edited ''Munsey's Magazine'' from 1904 until 1925 and was a columnist for the ''New York Sun'' from 1925 to 1942 The New York Public Library has a collection of his papers. His photographs include portraits of prominent people. Davis was born in Nebraska to Sylvia Nichols and George Ransome Davis. He grew up in Carson City, Nevada and began his career in newspapers there as a compositor at the '' Carson City Daily Appeal''. He also lived in San Francisco where he reported for the ''San Francisco Examiner'' and the '' Call and Chronicle'' before moving to New York City in 1895 and joining the ''New York World'' and ''New York Journal''. He joined Frank A. Munsey Company papers in 1904. He was an influence on several authors who became famous and corresponded with many prominent people. He was part of the Stevenson Society of America. He interviewed Mussolini in Rome in 1926. He int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lost City (1935 Serial)
''The Lost City'' is an independently made 12 chapter science fiction film serial created and produced in 1935 by Sherman S. Krellberg and directed by Harry Revier. Plot Scientist Bruce Gordon comes to a secluded area in Africa after concluding that a series of electrically induced natural disasters had originated from in the area. There he finds the crazed Zolok, last of the Lemurians, in a secret complex inside a mountain. Zolok had created the natural disasters as a prelude to his attempt to take over the world, holding a brilliant scientist, Dr. Manyus, there hostage, along with his daughter, Natcha. He had forced Manyus to create mindless "giant" slaves out of the natives as a private army and as the serial progresses we learn Manyus also turned another tribe, the spider-worshipping Wangas, into thin, impotent whites. Gordon helps Manyus and his daughter to escape Zolok, but they encounter Ben Ali, a malignant slave trader; meet the sexy native Queen Rama, who tries to hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Way Of All Flesh (1927 Film)
''The Way of All Flesh'' is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by Victor Fleming, written by Lajos Bíró, Jules Furthman, and Julian Johnson from a story by Perley Poore Sheehan. Star Emil Jannings won the first Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the 1929 ceremony for his performances in this film and '' The Last Command,'' the only year that multiple roles were considered. It is now considered a lost film. Plot In the story, which opens in the early 1900s, Jannings plays August Schiller, a bank clerk in Milwaukee who is happy with both his job and his family. But when bank officials ask him to transport $1,000 in securities to Chicago, he meets a blond seductress on the train, who sees what he is carrying. She flirts with him, convinces him to buy her a bottle of champagne, and takes him to a saloon run by a crook. The next morning he awakes alone in a dilapidated bedroom, without the securities. He finds the woman, and at first pleads with her, then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love And Glory (film)
''Love and Glory'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Rupert Julian and starring Charles de Rochefort, Wallace MacDonald, and Madge Bellamy. Plot As described in a film magazine Film periodicals combine discussion of individual films, genres and directors with in-depth considerations of the medium and the conditions of its production and reception. Their articles contrast with film reviewing in newspapers and magazines whi ..., Anatole Picard (MacDonald) and Pierre Dupont (de Rochefort) are two French volunteers in the Algerian campaign, brother and sweetheart of Gabrielle (Bellamy). Before embarking for Africa, Pierre wins the young woman's promise to await his return. Serving as a bugler in headquarters company, Anatole is captured by the enemy and commanded to blow Retreat. He outwits his captors and blows the Charge, resulting in a French victory. Returning home, they find their native village devastated by the Prussian war of 1870, and the young woman gone. P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Night Message
''The Night Message'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Perley Poore Sheehan and written by Raymond L. Schrock and Perley Poore Sheehan. The film stars Howard Truesdale, Gladys Hulette, Charles Cruz, Margaret Seddon, Norman Rankow, and Robert Gordon. The film was released on March 17, 1924, by Universal Pictures Universal Pictures (legally Universal City Studios LLC, also known as Universal Studios, or simply Universal; common metonym: Uni, and formerly named Universal Film Manufacturing Company and Universal-International Pictures Inc.) is an Ameri .... Plot As described in a film magazine review, the Lefferts and Longstreet families live in a southern mountain region and are enemies. Elsie Lefferts and Lee Longstreet are sweethearts Old Man Lefferts favors the suit of telegraph operator Lem Beeman. The latter, while hunting, accididentally shoots Elsie's brother, Harney. Lee is blamed for the killing and is arrested and sentenced to death. The telegra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (1923 Film)
''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' is a 1923 American drama film starring Lon Chaney, directed by Wallace Worsley, and produced by Carl Laemmle and Irving Thalberg. The supporting cast includes Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry, Nigel de Brulier, and Brandon Hurst. The film was Universal's "Super Jewel" of 1923 and was their most successful silent film, grossing $3.5 million. The film premiered on September 2, 1923 at the Astor Theatre in New York, New York, then went into release on September 6. The screenplay was written by Perley Poore Sheehan and Edward T. Lowe Jr., based on Victor Hugo's 1831 novel, and is notable for the grand sets that recall 15th century Paris as well as for Chaney's performance and make-up as the tortured hunchback bellringer Quasimodo. This was the seventh film adaptation of the novel. The film elevated Chaney, who was already a well-known character actor, to full star status in Hollywood, and also helped set a standard for many later horror films, includi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
